Contractions

I've come to really dread Decembers. Thanks to industry contractions, I've lost a couple of regular work outlets and of my three biggest remaining customers, one's bimonthly and another publishes ten times a year, and so as I discovered last year, my income takes a serious ding in the last month of the year.

I should have anticipated this and gotten a seasonal retail gig. I sure will next year.

I'm not in any danger of going hungry or not paying bills, and everything goes back to normal in January, but it does make for a pretty lame Christmas season. If anyone's feeling motivated to hit the tip jar in the next week or two, it wouldn't be taken amiss.

And God bless us, every one! Ho ho ho!

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